Joe Maphis: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke

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Joe Maphis: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke - 1959

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Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and LOUD, LOUD music) performed by Joe Maphis & wife Rose Lee, LIVE in 1959.
Maphis. known for the flatpicking style he developed in the 1930's, sings magnificent harmony with wife Rose in this 1950's crowd-pleaser.
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@mjonez8892 Жыл бұрын

I played with Joe’s grandson in N VA. He now owns that guitar in the video. He showed it to me at his home studio. Yes we played the song when I sat in with them for a gig. Very cool guy!

@jfnegron 11 жыл бұрын

I just shared hugs and God Bless You's with Rose Lee Maphis about two hours ago- Mrs. Country music herself. She is by far one of the sweetest, kindest ladies I have met and is a volunteer at the Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame.

@santhawhite4755 Жыл бұрын

love this REAL country music!

@54susieq 12 жыл бұрын

my daddy sang this to us when i was a child. this song, in 1959, i was only 5, when it was recorded. but i love it! it's the music my parents liked and i grew up liking it! thanks for putting it on here. love, susie q

@52843in 10 жыл бұрын

This song has an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

@MSASteelerPSG 11 жыл бұрын

It don't get much better than this. I believe that's Gordon Terry on fiddle, a great singer in his own right.

@whitt702 15 жыл бұрын

Speial made guitar by Semie Mosley called Mosrite. The pickups are Carvin AP6s, which haven't been made since about 1977. However, Bob Shade of Hallmark Guitars has done a great job of reproducing the original look and tone..as well as a single neck version of this guitar, trimmings and all. This is about the best sounding guitar I've ever heard.

@rockinredneck57 Жыл бұрын

This was #1 of the double neck Mosrite. Larry Collins had #2.

@johniorio7951 Жыл бұрын

1st time seeing Joe Maphis!....I was wonderin about that there geetar...he's playing the solo down on the low e,a, and d it looks like......now I'm going to play it that way at the next open mike...I remember a lot of the brits played mosrite in the 60's...

@mrfiddleman 16 жыл бұрын

That's a very young Gordon Terry on fiddle. Nice of Joe to give him a ride in the middle.

@dbbubba1 10 жыл бұрын

I was born to late! I was maybe a baby or even a zygote when this was done, but it is how I play guitar to this day and about the only music I play! That guitar solo rocks!

@cmlbob 16 жыл бұрын

Great to see this video!! We know Miss Rosie and she's a sweetheart!! Would love to see more videos on here of her and Joe!

@wininboy 16 жыл бұрын

Oh, I like this!

@grasshopper3930 2 жыл бұрын

Rosie is still working with the County Music Hall of Fame. 102 years old.

@waynek.1144 3 жыл бұрын

Joe would have been 100 this year, rose Lee is 98 and still kicking. She sang last night in Cumberland maryland, at Joe's 100th birthday remember. They are my wife's family

@sixstringmarauder 5 жыл бұрын

One of the few guitar pickers who could make Roy Clark look like a rookie, saw an old episode of Hee Haw and joe just smoked on that tune he and Roy did. Roy was visibly in awe.

@eyore3171 5 жыл бұрын

I think Roy was hamming it a bit - but the respect is obvious. Thanks for the note - here's the video (I think) to which you were referring: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJqHjJCExq7SZas.html

@bareknuckles2u 13 жыл бұрын

Sooooooooooo great! I LOVE it!

@tomlehr861 2 жыл бұрын

Drummer was kickin it

@Mike8827 4 жыл бұрын

THIS is American music, not all the rap crap and RnB so popular on the radio now!

@bidalaska3457 3 жыл бұрын

R&B were quite a stars in the 50s…

@tonylupo1764 7 жыл бұрын

This is great! True Legends !

@earlslot8320 4 жыл бұрын

nothing like the original, great job

@mjs28c 9 ай бұрын

Every time I hear this man play, it sounds like he's got a fresh set of strings on his guitar. Every-time. 🙂

@AudioMobil 3 жыл бұрын

Happy 98th Birthday, Rosie Lee Maphis! ❤

@SuperOlds88 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Rose The tone of the guitar and steel are phenomenal.

@packingten 4 жыл бұрын

Joe Maphis wrote this its been recorded many many times..

@farmgent 16 жыл бұрын

Terry Gordon is awesome on fiddle, multi talented and one of my favorite performers. I like when him and June Carter do the old oak bucket on the grand ole opry, it's very funny.

@RikkiVanHowle83 10 жыл бұрын

Wow...I thought that Handsome Ned from Ontario did this song justice...but this original has just made my week. I'm getting chills.

@TruegrassBoy 15 жыл бұрын

Super cool.

@61mab 2 жыл бұрын

Love that song and an uptempo version, really kicks it up perfectly

@quinnmccully4689 11 жыл бұрын

Dwight Yoakam does a killer cover of this song!

@user-nu7kk4uw6k 4 ай бұрын

In the mid sixties I bought a Joe Maphis album on the Starday label from a box with a lot of cheap LPs entitled Fire on the Strings. I regret not buying the whole box to this day.😂

@fergofns 12 жыл бұрын

The Derailers do a good version of this as well. This must be the original tho, it's great I loved it. Thank for sharing!!

@packingten 4 жыл бұрын

I just wrote this Joe wrote this,I think thats his wife Rose?.

@cindyhoward6100 2 жыл бұрын

Love this oldie

@5jonesville 14 жыл бұрын

The family that plays together.... Joe and Rose Lee.

@jjkcharlie Жыл бұрын

Joe and Rosie maphis.

@bluesborn 15 жыл бұрын

This stuff breathes soul unlike this goofy country crossover nonsense.

@sachetsofrelish 15 жыл бұрын

50 years old and as fresh as a daisy

@Grahamgusbull 7 жыл бұрын

Got a bunch of great versions of this...which will be joining them..NOW!

@welshhillbillyful 14 жыл бұрын

They were brilliant.True entertainers.Gordon Terry on fiddle.There is a good re-issue c.d. called "Cold Heart of Steel"recently released,well worth checking out.

@timothyducey5591 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Que cool! 😎

@michaelford549 5 жыл бұрын

Dwight Yoakam tells a story but how this man wrote this song he was in Bakersfield to see Buck Owens play on his way back to Los Angeles he thought of this song and who wrote it after that Bakersfield pretty interesting story Judah the Bakersfield sound Dim Lights Thick Smoke and loud loud music the classic

@TierodMcslush 8 жыл бұрын

That guy in the background playing the fiddle is the same cat who's playing the fender Jazzmaster on George jones White lightning video from 1962

@jlr8410 8 жыл бұрын

Gordon Terry

@douglasleftwich3936 6 жыл бұрын

Gordon Terry played with Faron Young, Johnny Cash, George Jones, and many others. Legendary country music figure!

@shannonburns6724 3 жыл бұрын

@@douglasleftwich3936 and Johnny Wright and Kitty Wells, Merle Haggard.

@thedustybuskers 14 жыл бұрын

It's "loud, loud music," not "live, live music." Great video

@robertbeaulieu8721 10 жыл бұрын

Yeeeee haw

@petermarquard5107 9 жыл бұрын

Joe appeared on a local TV show back about 1958 with the Collins Kids and Johnny Cash among others. I think it was called Town hall party. Joe was sensational on guitar and fiddle. Anyone have a clip of that show?

@rockinredneck57 3 жыл бұрын

This was the same set but called Ranch Party. Tex Ritter hosted Town Hall Party.

@rockinredneck57 3 жыл бұрын

There are several clips from Town Hall Party with Wanda Jackson, JR Cash The Collins Kids, Joe Maphis, Carl Perkins and others.

@brucehudson8135 Жыл бұрын

That’s what this clip is from.

@grasshopper3930 Жыл бұрын

This is COUNTRY FOLKS.

@powerkor 15 жыл бұрын

a woman knew her place back then

@rockinredneck57 3 жыл бұрын

Rose Lee Maphis is very well known as a solo singer. This is a song Joe wrote and recorded. Her "place" here is singing harmony for her husband.

@whitt702 15 жыл бұрын

I'd sure like to have Joe's Stetson.

@welshhillbillyful 13 жыл бұрын

@ronaldt491 The drummers name is Pee Wee Adams.He was used on many sessions by the likes of Capitol,and others in the fifties/sixties.Not his best moment on this one though.

@sonnyceeplaylist6337 5 жыл бұрын

🎯♥️♥️♥️♥️

@jpeanrkode 15 жыл бұрын

I'm partial to the guitar, myself.

@dkfelix 15 жыл бұрын

Is that Gordon Terry on fiddle? He was quite a guitarplayer himself.

@whitt702 15 жыл бұрын

I think it is the Standel special he always used to get that great tone.

@d.w.71 5 ай бұрын

This America no longer exists sadly

@Monaghan 9 жыл бұрын

"You just did it on record about 5 years ago." That's a long "just"! Haha

@darwynmead2597 11 ай бұрын

If you listen to the words and think about it, who would want her?

@DwightFan 12 жыл бұрын

I think it's funny that this song was written about Buck Owens and his Buckaroos

@rockinredneck57 3 жыл бұрын

Not the Buckaroos. Buck was playing guitar and fronting a band in the mid 50s at a joint called the Blackboard. Joe came in one night to see him and they were LOUD because Buck was slightly hard of hearing. Lots of cigarette smoke and low lights and he has a hit song.

@lesterbowman9558 5 жыл бұрын

Fiddler is Gordon Terry.

@rakesfunnyfarm 6 жыл бұрын

Wade Hayes does a great job on this song!

@crocks2871 15 жыл бұрын

anyone have a record of the "go fer song" by joe and rose lee maphis?

@pwea1 13 жыл бұрын

... is that a Bigsby neck on Rose Lees' guitar ?.....

@rockinredneck57 3 жыл бұрын

Probably a Bigsby guitar.

@jmeintn 11 жыл бұрын

Sho looks like it!

@rockinredneck57 7 жыл бұрын

As good as this is Vern Gosdin made it his in the 80's. The slower version really sticks with you. Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers covered it in the early 70s too.

@alan4sure 8 ай бұрын

Yep, a bit slower is better.

@ronaldt491 13 жыл бұрын

Who's the drummer trying to make them lose it and Rose almost did?

@NBTX4041 14 жыл бұрын

Junior Brown plays a GitSteel. It's a tele style guitar and a lap steel combo that sits on a stand. The one in this video is a guitar and either a tenor guitar or a mandolin. It looks like a tenor guitar since I can only see 6 tuning pegs...hard to tell as the video is kinda' grainy.

@rockinredneck57 3 жыл бұрын

This is a Mosrite. The very first double neck electric guitar. The short neck is tuned standard but an octave higher.